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While it is not one of the popular programming languages for data science, The Go Programming Language (aka Golang) has surfaced for me a few times in the past few years as an option for data science. I decided to do some searching and find some conclusions about whether golang is a good choice for data science.

Popularity of Go and Data Science

As the following figure from Google Trends demonstrates, golang and data science became trendy topics at about the same time and grew at a similar rate.

The timely trends may have created the desire to merge the two technologies together.

Golang Projects for Data Science

Some internet searching will reveal a number of interesting Golang/Data Science projects on Github. Unfortunately, many of the projects had good initial traction but have dwindled in activity over the last couple years. Below is a listing of some of the data science related projects for Golang.